LOS ANGELES – During Blake Griffin’s rookie year, the Clippers forward became a star after a ferocious one-handed dunk over the Knicks’ Timofey Mozgov. It was a season-defining highlight for a player who would later dunk over a parked car.

Monday night, Griffin’s highlight reel might have gotten a new climax, with Griffin rising up to turn Kendrick Perkins’ last name into a verb with a one-handed throw through the rim.

In the Clippers’ 112-100 victory over Oklahoma City at Staples Center, it was the most memorable moment in a night full of highlights for the Clippers, who might be playing their best basketball of the season.

After Griffin’s monster dunk in the third quarter, forward Reggie Evans found athleticism he didn’t know he had.

“I think I jumped up about as high as he did,” Evans said.

Griffin said he gauged the magnitude of the slam from two things – how the crowd reacts and how center DeAndre Jordan reacts.

“I can usually gauge it by how DJ reacts,” Griffin said. “This team, he screamed and bear hugged me. I knew he thought it was pretty cool.”

The Clippers (12-6) jumped out to an 11-point lead after one quarter and stretched that margin to 18 by halftime after hitting four-straight three-point shots in less than a minute.

“That was probably the best exchange of basketball I’ve ever been a part of since I’ve been in the NBA,” guard Chris Paul said. “Four three’s in under a minute – not only did we make the shots, it was how we did it. We moved the ball.”

Paul thwarted the Thunder’s final charge, slicing through the defense for a team-high 26 points to go along with 14 assists.

Kevin Durant scored 36 for Oklahoma City (16-4), and Russell Westbrook had 31, but no one else on the Thunder scored more than seven points.

The Clippers have now won three in a row, picking up wins over Memphis, at Denver (currently the second seed in the West) and over the Thunder (the top seed in the West). Still, the Clippers are taking the success in stride.

“It shows that we’re a solid team,” Griffin said. “But I think we have a lot of room for improvement still. We don’t want to get too high on ourselves right now. It’s a long season.”

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